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Productivity - Getting Things Done
Have you heard of GTD? It's a powerful productivity system created by David Allen, and it's boosting people's capacity to
get things done all over the world.
Put simply, GTD is a bottom-up system, designed to increase your productivity. It is basically a system designed to get your
mind as empty as possible, so that you can focus on things much more clearly, without having thoughts "weighing-you-down"
in your subconscious.
GTD is a complete system, made up of many individual ideas. Some of these, like "getting your inbox to empty", are just general
principles, and don't really need any special tools. But there are other parts to GTD as well, including:
- Next action lists,
- Storing reference data,
- Someday maybe lists, and
- Tickler files.
For GTD to work at its best, you need specialized tools to help with these sub-systems. And you want these tools to work with
you, rather than against you. Whilst GTD is a simple system to understand, it can take quite a bit of discipline to keep going
with it, without resorting back to your old inefficient ways.
People who are familiar with Getting Things Done (the productivity method described by David Allen) often find Note Studio
an ideal tool for electronically managing their GTD system. Many GTD experts have discovered that Note Studio and GTD are
a powerful combination. Combine that with the ability to run the same software on their Palm Pilot, and they have a GTD system
that works anywhere.
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